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In the wake of DC cancelling the Red Hood comic book series, citing unspecified “posts or public comments that can be viewed as promoting hostility or violence,” the writer of the series has said that she has no regrets over social media comments that she believes are responsible for the cancellation.

In a follow-up story to Popverse’s initial reporting of the title’s cancellation, The Hollywood Reporter explicitly tied the series’ conclusion to posts on Gretchen Felker-Martin’s (since suspended) Bluesky account about the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. It also noted, however, that said posts were "merely the final straw that broke the camel’s back, rather than the sole reason for Red Hood’s cancellation,” according to anonymous sources inside DC. 

Speaking to The Comics Journal, Felker-Martin appeared to confirm THR’s sources saying this wasn't a standalone incident, saying that three weeks prior to the title’s cancellation on September 10, she had received a call from editor Andrea Turturro and Batman group editor Rob Levin regarding resurfaced past social media posts that could be considered inflammatory regarding topics the ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestine. During the call, she said that they had been told that there “had been some internal hesitation about going forward, just because of the breadth and vitriolic nature of everything going on. I know the concern was coming from higher up. I don’t know who, exactly, just that it was coming from someone at the more executive level.” DC Comics confirmed to TCJ that this call took place.

The Comics Journal reports that DC confirmed that call, as well as a second call which included DC Comics' editor-in-chief Marie Javins that took place September 10. That alleged call took place after a series of BlueSky posts which included several responding to Charlie Kirk’s shooting, stating “Thoughts and prayers you Nazi bitch” and “Hope the bullet’s okay after touching Charlie Kirk.” 

Saying that “it just didn’t strike me as an especially hot flashpoint… this is such a loathsome person,” Felker-Martin admitted, “Had I thought for another second, of course I would have known [that it would be a problem for DC], and naturally, as soon as I had said it, I did know.”

Felker-Martin had also posted specifically about the Red Hood issue on September 10, writing, "Kept seeing people [trigger warning] Red Hood #1 for suicide, and for the life of me I could not figure out why until I remembered it opens with a bunch of cops shooting themselves. i just don't really consider them people."

Felker-Martin said during the September 10 call, the DC editor-in-chief told her that the “story of the issue’s release had gone from celebratory to something that DC and Warner Brothers couldn’t stand behind or defend.” 

The writer said that she “had no regrets for what I said,” adding, “Frankly, I feel that they were interested in my cachet as a transgressive horror author, and the moment that became politically disadvantageous for them, they cut and ran.”

Felker-Martin is a prose novelist, with four novels and three novellas published to date; her most recent novel, Black Flame, was published on August 5. 

Despite having written on an irregular basis for the publisher since 2023 on titles including Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and DC Pride, Felker-Martin said that, if offered the chance for further work with DC, she would decline.

“I have no desire to be part of any organization that wants to pretend that people like Charlie Kirk are decent human beings who deserve respect," she explained.

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